VCI Entertainment made a
long-lead announcement this past week that will have genre-fans salivating and
counting the summer days until mid-August arrives.
While the Hollywood studios are currently
working on their May and June product offerings, VCI Entertainment has gotten
out in front of the big boys with an Aug. 14 street date for new 2K
restorations (from the original 35mm film negatives) of two horror classics
from iconic ‘70s filmmaker S.F. Brownrigg.
Titled Grindhouse
Double Feature From Cult Director S. F. Brownrigg (that’s a mouthful),
this double-disc Blu-ray collection features both his September of 1973
drive-in classic, Don’t Look in the Basement (aka: The Forgotten) and the
Blu-ray debut of his 1974 follow-up, Don’t Open the Door.
Make no mistake, even
after forty years (and then some) Brownrigg’s nut house tale — oops, make that the
insightful story of Dr. Stephens (Michael Harvey) and the patients at Stephens
Sanitarium — still packs a wallop. The “guests”
(patients) are allowed to be themselves in the theory that they will drive
themselves so crazy that they will eventually “snap out of it.” Good luck with that!!! Charlotte (Rosie Holotik) is the new nurse,
hired (spoiler here) ironically by one of the crazy patients (an over-the-top
performance by Annabelle Weenick … who also appears as Annie in Brownigg’s Don’t
Open the Door), who is well on her way to going crazy herself after a
day or two at Stephens Sanitarium.
Bonus goodies include
commentary for Don’t Look in the Basement by film historian and journalist,
David Del Valle and filmmaker David Decoteau (Puppet Master III: Toulon’s
Revenge), plus outtakes and a collection of grindhouse and gore
theatrical trailers from the period.
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